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Software Development
Honestly Evaluating Your Skills
During job interviews, employers will often ask what your strengths and weaknesses are. This information can be very useful for…
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Agile
C# – TFS Code Reviews – Show updated files in response to comments
Nice steps here: C# â TFS Code Reviews â Show updated files in response to comments â Stack Overflow. Whatâs…
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.NET
Calculating the Checksum of a fix Message
The FIX (Financial Information Exchange) Protocol is an industry standard used by financial institutions to⊠guess what⊠exchange financial information.…
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Agile
TDD: It’s not that simple
TDD is pretty simple right? Obey the red-green-refactor step-by-step and youâre on your way to glorious, non-legacy code. Itâs really…
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Software Development
Do not expose properties with writable fields without a chance to react on the writes.
From a chat with a co-worker a while ago: Iâm not against properties. Just something against properties that are…
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Career
My Business is Software
When I attended Drury University, I was a bit of an enigma. My peer group in the business school didnât…
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Software Development
REST API Design – Resource Modeling
Important note: this is not something I’ve written up by myself, but it’s rather a summary, some highlighting of the…
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.NET
C#: Lazy is not constrained to static contexts, instance field initializers are: via Stack Overflow
Lazy<T> is not constrained to static contexts. Instance field initialisers cannot use instance references (but can use static references) as…
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.NET
Production Postmortem: The case of the slow index rebuild
A customer called to complain that the indexing times that they were seeing on an index rebuild were very high,…
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Software Development
From Legacy Code to Testable Code #8: Convert If-Else’s to Guard Blocks
Code simplification is one of the best things we can do for ourselves. If we understand the code, not only…
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